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The other day I came across a quote from Walter Cronkite in which he said “America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” Although I believe that the people working in healthcare are caring both in terms of the work we do and the patients we treat, I think Mr. Cronkite was correct on the other two issues. American healthcare is not healthy nor a system.
It occurs to me that the development of electronic health or E-Health is much like a dance and we, as leaders in the technology aspects of health, need to learn some new steps. It’s easy to be caught in the technology foxtrot and spend our time on interoperability, data quality, unique identifiers and semantic referents. […]
Every year I go to the annual HIMSS conference. It is a wonderful learning opportunity and a great opportunity to exchange ideas with friend and colleagues. I look forward to going each year, but recently I have come back wondering what is it we are doing as an industry, and where is the innovation. I […]
Dale Sanders in if 2/7/10 post asked the right questions about HIE sustainability and value. We hear very little about the successful HIE and I suspect will continue to hear about the failures with some frequency. Come on folks, those of you running successful operations, speak out and tell us your secrets. Hie’s need good […]
I say YES but not solely by the transfer and movement of information across exchanges. The value proposition lies not in the dollars but in the ability to improve quality for the patients, care provider, and health system. In today’s environment, health systems and hospitals with an EHR have realized some efficiency in testing and […]
